Black Duck IP Assessment

Hello rdesktop developers,

This is to inform you that we have paid for a Black Duck IP assessment of
the FreeRDP code base, from which we have received the reports. I have
updated our wiki page the provides information on the license change
accordingly: http://www.freerdp.com/wiki/doku.php?id=license_change

The Black Duck report, along with the source snapshots used in the
assessment, can be obtained here:
http://www.freerdp.com/downloads/freerdp_blackduck.zip

For those who do not know about Black Duck, they are a company specialized
in intellectual property issues: http://www.blackducksoftware.com/

Their expertise in the domain is trusted by a number of large companies:
http://www.blackducksoftware.com/about/customers

The report did brought the attention towards certain problems, such as code
snippets in ssl.c that we simply got rid of (SHA-1 and MD5 code snippets
were GPLv2).

We are therefore now in our "final sprint" of review for ensuring that our
code base is clean enough for considering a FreeRDP 0.9 release under the
Apache license.

I invite the rdesktop developers to report issues that would not have caught
our attention yet, so that we address them. One this final review sprint is
done, we will have reached a sufficient level of confidence that the code
base is clean to proceed with the release of FreeRDP 0.9 under the Apache
license.

In sign of good faith, please note that we recently added RemoteFX support
in FreeRDP this week. Since it's a separate library (librfx) released under
the Apache license, it could be integrated in rdesktop, if someone wants to
do it.

Best regards,
- Marc-Andre

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